exit

\ɛɡ.zit\

/\ɛɡ.zit\/ noun

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The verdict

“exit” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,315
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sortie théâtrale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exit · exit · French

exit · rank #21,315 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,315
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH euphorie

Nearest frequency peer: euphorie (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « exit »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « exit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

exit vs exp
50% similar
exit vs exo
50% similar
exit vs ext
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for exit
PropertyValue
Headwordexit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛɡ.zit\
Letters4
Frequency rank#21,315
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exit »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.exitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « euphorie » (#21,314), « exploitent » (#21,316), « essaierai » (#21,313). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exit » est au #21,315. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around exit (IPA \ɛɡ.zit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,315 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sortie théâtrale.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for exit, with forms such as "eixt", "exitt", and "exti". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "exp", "exo", "ext", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is exit, spelled E-X-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sortie théâtrale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how exit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 18 avril 42 – Alors je suis partie, sans même un beau mot de la fin, sans formule bouleversante qu’il aurait été obligé d’associer à mon exit. Je suis partie très sottement, sans panache ni sanglot et j’ai repris mon métro.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eixt
  • exitt
  • exti
  • exxit
  • xeit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

eixt2exitt1exti2exxit1xeit2
Edit distance from "exit"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exit"?
"exit" is spelled E-X-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.zit\.
What does "exit" mean?
As a noun, "exit" means: Sortie théâtrale.
What words are commonly confused with "exit"?
"exit" is commonly confused with "exp", "exo", "ext". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "exit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exit" is \ɛɡ.zit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exit" come from?
"exit" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exit", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

eyes#21,318brio#21,258Laos#21,374bibi#21,249

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

housse5 variantsAlix5 variantsagile5 variantsToni5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list